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The noble identity of Gavin Douglas

Royan, Nicola

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NICOLA ROYAN NICOLA.ROYAN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Older Scots Literature



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Emily Wingfield
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Abstract

This essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish advice to princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. It considers the manner in which Douglas’s translation represents nobility, national identity, and political violence, with reference to Douglas’s own magnatial identity and that of the poem’s patron, William Sinclair. It considers both the prologues and the translated texts, examining further the relationship between them. In so doing, it places the Eneados in the context of Virgilian criticism as well as Older Scots poetic traditions, and demonstrates parallels in language choices regarding war, government, and rule.

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Royan, N. (2017). The noble identity of Gavin Douglas. In J. Martin, & E. Wingfield (Eds.), Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587. Oxford University Press

Publication Date Jun 22, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 30, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Book Title Premodern Scotland: literature and governance 1420-1587
Chapter Number 9
ISBN 9780198787525
Keywords Gavin Douglas, Eneados, advice material, nobility, Virgil, chivalry
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/867748
Publisher URL https://global.oup.com/academic/product/premodern-scotland-9780198787525?cc=gb&lang=en&
Additional Information Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press

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